Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 282 293
Rank change year-on-year +27 +11 -97
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 509 563 533
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.85% 1.00% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.12% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 232 283 359
10th Percentile £41,093 £42,608 £45,700
25th Percentile £55,175 £55,786 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £119,875 £93,700 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,304 £65,125
% change year-on-year -1.27% -2.80% +8.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,042 50,361 46,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.17% 89.77% 92.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28,825 25,280 35,250
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% -3.67%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 25 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +35 453 £70,000 +3.70% 905
London +92 245 £80,000 - 179
UK excluding London -31 208 £62,500 -1.27% 812
Work from Home +39 169 £71,000 +9.23% 443
South East -5 65 £62,500 -3.85% 224
North of England +9 49 £75,000 +11.11% 173
Midlands -19 42 £62,250 -0.40% 142
West Midlands +6 27 £57,468 -8.05% 77
Yorkshire +11 26 £82,500 +26.92% 72
North West +2 22 £70,000 - 89
East of England +41 20 £72,000 -0.69% 121
South West -17 17 £62,500 +13.64% 88
East Midlands -32 13 £80,000 +33.33% 59
Northern Ireland +4 11 £75,000 +26.20% 10
Wales +8 4 £53,750 -16.16% 17
Scotland -7 3 £42,000 -29.33% 43
North East +4 1 - - 12

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.14%) Confluence
2 6 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.59%) CMS
4 2 (0.39%) CICS
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.39%) MTS
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.79%) Trello
6 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 16 (3.14%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.98%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.79%) Shopify
5 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (14.73%) SaaS
2 62 (12.18%) Azure
3 52 (10.22%) AWS
4 27 (5.30%) GCP
5 22 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (3.93%) PaaS
7 19 (3.73%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.75%) GitHub
9 13 (2.55%) H2O.ai
9 13 (2.55%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.77%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.77%) Vertex AI
11 7 (1.38%) Azure AI
11 7 (1.38%) Pulumi
12 5 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.79%) Collibra
13 4 (0.79%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 3 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.75%) Broadband
2 9 (1.77%) HTTP
3 8 (1.57%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.57%) WAN
4 7 (1.38%) LAN
5 6 (1.18%) RTP
5 6 (1.18%) Wireless
6 5 (0.98%) 5G
6 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.79%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.59%) PSTN
9 2 (0.39%) ATM
9 2 (0.39%) GPRS
9 2 (0.39%) LTE
9 2 (0.39%) Modbus
9 2 (0.39%) SAN
10 1 (0.20%) 4G
10 1 (0.20%) Intranet
10 1 (0.20%) Network Security
10 1 (0.20%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.93%) Metadata
1 20 (3.93%) Relational Database
2 17 (3.34%) Power BI
3 16 (3.14%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.75%) Data Lake
4 14 (2.75%) RDBMS
5 7 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.18%) SAP BW
6 6 (1.18%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.98%) Data Mining
7 5 (0.98%) Tableau
8 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.59%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.39%) DB2
11 1 (0.20%) Big Data
11 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 33 (6.48%) JIRA
2 7 (1.38%) Jaeger
3 5 (0.98%) TeamCity
4 4 (0.79%) ERwin
5 3 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 197 (38.70%) Social Skills
2 180 (35.36%) Finance
3 110 (21.61%) Marketing
4 100 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (9.43%) Legal
6 45 (8.84%) Banking
7 39 (7.66%) Law
8 36 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (6.88%) Retail
10 33 (6.48%) Financial Institution
11 31 (6.09%) Manufacturing
12 26 (5.11%) Public Sector
13 23 (4.52%) Electronics
14 22 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (3.93%) Telecoms
17 15 (2.95%) Digital Economy
18 14 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
19 12 (2.36%) Billing
20 11 (2.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 140 (27.50%) Product Manager
2 70 (13.75%) Lead
3 63 (12.38%) Senior
4 28 (5.50%) Senior Manager
5 23 (4.52%) Product Owner
6 21 (4.13%) Product Lead
7 19 (3.73%) Product Management Director
7 19 (3.73%) Senior Product Manager
8 18 (3.54%) Security Engineer
9 17 (3.34%) Digital Product Manager
10 15 (2.95%) Architect
10 15 (2.95%) Change Manager
10 15 (2.95%) Developer
11 13 (2.55%) Technical Support
12 11 (2.16%) Head of Product Management
13 10 (1.96%) Head of Digital
14 9 (1.77%) Data Manager
14 9 (1.77%) Development Manager
14 9 (1.77%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (1.77%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.13%) REST
2 17 (3.34%) YAML
3 13 (2.55%) Keras
3 13 (2.55%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.55%) TensorFlow
4 8 (1.57%) Flask
5 7 (1.38%) .NET
5 7 (1.38%) EDI
5 7 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.38%) FastAPI
5 7 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.18%) Node.js
7 4 (0.79%) JSON
7 4 (0.79%) OAuth
7 4 (0.79%) React
7 4 (0.79%) SAML
7 4 (0.79%) SOAP
7 4 (0.79%) XML
8 3 (0.59%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 78 (15.32%) Product Ownership
2 54 (10.61%) Onboarding
3 35 (6.88%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (6.09%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.54%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.34%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.96%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.96%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.77%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.77%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.77%) Social Media
9 8 (1.57%) IoT
9 8 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.98%) Tandem
13 4 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.77%) Linux
2 7 (1.38%) Unix
3 4 (0.79%) Windows
4 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (47.74%) Roadmaps
2 202 (39.69%) Agile
3 127 (24.95%) Product Roadmap
4 120 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (23.58%) Product Strategy
5 99 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 90 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 82 (16.11%) User Experience
8 81 (15.91%) Analytics
9 80 (15.72%) AI
10 71 (13.95%) Computer Science
11 70 (13.75%) Mentoring
12 68 (13.36%) Information Security
13 62 (12.18%) Decision-Making
13 62 (12.18%) Product Vision
14 59 (11.59%) B2B
15 57 (11.20%) Coaching
16 56 (11.00%) Business Development
16 56 (11.00%) User Stories
17 54 (10.61%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 40 (7.86%) Python
1 40 (7.86%) SQL
2 26 (5.11%) Java
3 17 (3.34%) PowerShell
4 11 (2.16%) Go
5 8 (1.57%) Bash
5 8 (1.57%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.18%) C#
7 3 (0.59%) C++
8 2 (0.39%) COBOL
8 2 (0.39%) JCL
8 2 (0.39%) PHP
8 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.39%) Scala
9 1 (0.20%) Groovy
9 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.20%) R
9 1 (0.20%) SHACL
9 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (23.97%) Degree
2 56 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (10.61%) Master's Degree
4 33 (6.48%) Security Cleared
5 21 (4.13%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.96%) MBA
7 9 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.57%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.57%) PMP
9 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.98%) CSPO
11 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.79%) CISM
11 4 (0.79%) CISSP
11 4 (0.79%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.59%) CITP
12 3 (0.59%) HNC
12 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.39%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.29%) QA
2 27 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.13%) NIST
4 20 (3.93%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.54%) NCSC
6 17 (3.34%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.18%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.98%) GDPR
8 5 (0.98%) IFRS
8 5 (0.98%) PMO
8 5 (0.98%) SLA
9 4 (0.79%) SEPA
10 3 (0.59%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.39%) COREP
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.39%) FINREP
11 2 (0.39%) PSD2
12 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (3.14%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.98%) vSphere
3 2 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.39%) RACF
3 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.95%) Terraform
3 7 (1.38%) Ansible
3 7 (1.38%) Argo
3 7 (1.38%) Kustomize
3 7 (1.38%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (0.39%) WSUS
6 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 58 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.88%) Google
3 20 (3.93%) Salesforce
4 18 (3.54%) Databricks
5 15 (2.95%) Dell
6 14 (2.75%) SAP
7 13 (2.55%) Foundry
7 13 (2.55%) NVIDIA
8 6 (1.18%) Zoho
9 5 (0.98%) Adobe
9 5 (0.98%) VMware
10 4 (0.79%) Manugistics
10 4 (0.79%) Sage
10 4 (0.79%) YouTube
11 3 (0.59%) Apple
11 3 (0.59%) Cisco
11 3 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.59%) Oracle
11 3 (0.59%) Tenable
12 2 (0.39%) Juniper